CWA Newsletter - February Newsletter 2024

2023 CWA

CWA 2024 Updates

Get your calendars ready because CWA 2024 is just around the corner! We'll kick off with a keynote on the afternoon of April 9, followed by all-day panels on April 10–12. Details about panel topics and the schedule will be sent to you on March 6, 2024. Or you can visit our website for more information.

2024 Speaker Announcement

This year, we're honored to welcome more than 70 distinguished speakers, including Nancy Wang, Wisdom Cole and Joe Cirincione. Get acquainted with a few of our notable 2024 CWA speakers below, or explore our website for more information.

Nancy Wang: A product and engineering executive, advisor and investor with expertise in cloud computing, cybersecurity, AI and SaaS business models, Wang advises Fortune 10 companies and startups on revenue growth strategies and attracting enterprise customers.

Wisdom Cole: National director of the NAACP Youth & College Division, Cole has empowered over 700 youth councils and high school and college chapters in civil rights advocacy. He specializes in training, grassroots organizing and creating advocacy toolkits.

Joe Cirincione: With 40 years of experience, Cirincione is a renowned national security analyst and author. He's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has written several books, including Nuclear Nightmares and Bomb Scare.

Ebert Interruptus 

Ebert Interruptus is back at the Conference on World Affairs, offering a hair-raising experience for movie buffs. This year, host Josh Larsen will dissect The Babadook,' the 2014 Australian horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent. The full interview with Larsen is coming soon to your inbox.

Book Club

The CWA Book Club is back! This year, we'll be reading Apeirogon by Colum McCann. Get ready for engaging discussions during the book panel at CWA and other preconference events.

Apeirogon is a 2020 novel based on the true story of the fraternal relationship between Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian Muslim, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli Jew, who both lost daughters in violence in the West Bank. Aramin co-founded the activist group Combatants for Peace; Elhanan joined after his son, Elik, brought him to a meeting seven years before Aramin’s daughter, Abir, died. By the time Abir was shot by an Israeli soldier, Elhanan and Aramin were close friends. The new loss made them brothers. Since 2007 they’ve traveled all over the world together, speaking about what they experienced.

The book is divided into 1,001 short chapters crossing history, geography, art and nature, ultimately creating a novel that is both heart-breaking and hopeful, and showing the power of storytelling to respond to grief. You can watch the author and protagonists in discussion here.